‘Lefties’ on social media ‘dragged’ bushfire debate towards climate change: Murray

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Sky News host Paul Murray has taken aim at the social media 'trigger words' which he said were used during this bushfire season to exacerbate the issue and link it to climate change. Climate change was used 644,000 times on twitter in comparison to 63,000 times on news media since November last year, to which Mr Murray said twitter may be real people, but its not real life. The word was used a total of 890,000 times across all media platforms between November 2019 and last week, which Mr Murray said was definitely because of what the lefties are saying on social media. It dragged the debate disproportionately in a time of emergency to what people demand when it comes to politics," he said. Image: Associated Press Read More Our Apps